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>people shouldn't buy phones from the manufacturers they don't trust.

People shouldn't put their pictures , and relationship status, and whom they know, and what they think, and where they go, and what they talk in private about, to a private company's service that they don't trust.

Oh, except for, they do.

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Companies shouldn't intentionally mislead users about privacy and data use. They should be either trustworthy or held accountable for deceiving consumers.

A large part of GDPR's value is killing these misleading practices by exposing them.

Facebook never mislead anybody about how their data was being used. That's a lie the media is feeding everyone for some reason.

Zuck recently said their legal contracts required data to be deleted and therefore it was. That's directly misleading.

I hear nothing about people not trusting Facebook, other than from those who don't use it. But plenty of people who either trust them or don't care either way who do put their personal data and photographs on Facebook. It's only when stories such as Cambridge Analytica make the news that they then realise how their data is being used.

Who are you talking about that in one breath say they don't trust Facebook and in the next go and put their data on their servers?

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